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DOI	10.1016/j.quaint.2021.06.023
	The palaeoenvironmental potential of the eastern Jordanian desert basins (Qe'an)
	Jones, Matthew D.; Richter, Tobias; Rollefson, Gary; Rowan, Yorke; Roe, Joe; Toms, Phillip; Wood, Jamie; Wasse, Alexander; Ikram, Haroon; Williams, Matthew; AlShdaifat, Ahmad; Pedersen, Patrick Norskov; Esaid, Wesam
通讯作者	Jones, MD
来源期刊	QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL
ISSN	1040-6182
EISSN	1873-4553
出版年	2022
卷号	635 页码:73-82
英文摘要	This paper presents a summary of work undertaken by the authors and their teams on a series of Qe'an (plural of Qa'), in the Badia of eastern Jordan. These basins are foci for settlement in the region, with the sites described here (Shubayqa, Wisad and the Qa' Qattafi) edged by archaeological sites dating from the late Epipalaeolithic (ca. 14,500 -11,600 cal BP) and the Neolithic (ca. 11,700 -6100 cal BP), and in areas still used by people today as seasonal wetlands for watering animals and growing cereal. We assess here the potential for the Qe'an sed-iments to provide what would be rare continuous palaeoenvironmental records for this part of SW Asia. The paper presents the first dates from the Qe'an of this region and the outline sedimentology. Much of the fill is of Holocene age, which leads to discussion of climate and landscape change over the last 15,000 years, particularly due to the close geographical relationship between these basins and archaeology. Our optically stimulated luminescence and radiocarbon dating of the basin fill suggests that there was significantly more space in the landscape for water storage in the early Holocene, which may have therefore provided this resource for people and their livestock or game for a longer duration each year than that seen today. Linked to this are hypotheses of a more vegetated landscape during this time period. Given the environmentally marginal nature of our study area subtle changes in landscape and/or climate, and human exploitation of these resources, could have led to significant, and likely detrimental for its inhabitants, environmental impacts for the region, such as desertification. Our data are suggestive of desertification occurring, and sets up a clear hypothesis for testing by future work in the region.
英文关键词	Jordan Badia Holocene Epipalaeolithic Neolithic
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Accepted
收录类别	SCI-E
WOS记录号	WOS:000861246000002
WOS关键词	ORGANIC-MATTER ; QUARTZ ; SINGLE ; LUMINESCENCE ; CARBONATE ; SEDIMENTS ; IGNITION ; CLIMATE ; JAVA
WOS类目	Geography, Physical ; Geosciences, Multidisciplinary
WOS研究方向	Physical Geography ; Geology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/394097
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Jones, Matthew D.,Richter, Tobias,Rollefson, Gary,et al. The palaeoenvironmental potential of the eastern Jordanian desert basins (Qe'an)[J],2022,635:73-82.
APA	Jones, Matthew D..,Richter, Tobias.,Rollefson, Gary.,Rowan, Yorke.,Roe, Joe.,...&Esaid, Wesam.(2022).The palaeoenvironmental potential of the eastern Jordanian desert basins (Qe'an).QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL,635,73-82.
MLA	Jones, Matthew D.,et al."The palaeoenvironmental potential of the eastern Jordanian desert basins (Qe'an)".QUATERNARY INTERNATIONAL 635(2022):73-82.